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Program

as of 17.08.2026

Please note that this program is still in the development phase. As such, it is continuously being refined and improved, and regular updates will be implemented. We appreciate your understanding and patience during this process.

Monday, 14th of September

08:00 – 09:00	Registration + Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome - Philipp Adelhelm, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
09:15 – 09:45	The Na-ion Battery: Research in the Last Fifteen Years - Christopher Johnson, Argonne National Labs, US
09:45 – 10:15	New active and inactive materials for Na ion batteries - Max Fichtner, Universität Ulm / Helmholtz Institute Ulm / KIT, Germany
10:15 – 10:45	From Order to Disorder: Composition-Controlled Phase Transitions in Layered O3-NaxTMO2 Cathodes - Dorthe Ravnsbæk, Aarhus University, Denmark
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45	Interlayer Hydration Chemistry Enables Stacking-Disordered P2 Layered Cathodes with Reversible Phase Transition - Yong-Mook Kang, Korea University, South Korea
11:45 – 12:15	Origin of Capacity Limitation in Sidorenkite-Type Na3-xFe(PO4)(CO3) Carbonophosphate Cathodes for Na-Ion Batteries - Sigita Trabesinger, Paul-Scherrer-Institut, Switzerland
12:15 – 12:45	Unexpected Gassing Phenomena in Sodium Layered Oxide/Hard Carbon Pouch Cells - Michael Metzger, Dalhousie University, Canada
12:45 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 14:45	Unveiling the Battery Chemistry of Group-1 Elements - Shinichi Komaba, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
14:45 – 15:15	Particle Cracking and Interfacial Reactivity in Advanced Sodium-ion Batteries - Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, US
15:15 – 15:45	Structures and microstructures: from solid electrolytes to solid-state batteries - Wolfgang Zeier, Universität Münster, Germany
15:45 – 16:15	Composite Soft Matter Electrolytes for Na-Based Batteries - Aninda Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru, India
16:30 – 18:30	Poster Session + Coffee
18:30 – 21:00	Dinner

Tuesday, 15th of September

08:30 – 09:00	Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:30	Strategically resilient energy storage solution for Europe's energy infrastructure - Nicolas Bucher, Varta AG, Germany
09:30 – 10:00	Sodium-Ion Batteries: When Abundant Chemistry Meets Industrial Reality - Ronnie Mogensen, Altris AB, Sweden
10:00 – 10:30	Bringing Sodium-Ion Batteries to the Road: An Automotive OEM’s Pathway from Concept to Application - Jakob Baumbach, Volkswagen AG, Center of Excellence Battery, Germany
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	From Cell Teardown to Scaled Production: Benchmarking and Industrialization Pathways for Sodium-Ion Batteries - Philipp Voß & Moritz Schäfer, Fraunhofer FFB, Germany
11:30 – 12:00	Printed Sodium Ion Batteries for a sustainable and resilient energy system - Daniela Fenske, Fraunhofer IFAM Bremen, Germany
12:00 – 12:30	Gassing and Capacity Fade: The Role of Solvents, Conductive Salts and Additives in Sodium-Ion Pouch Cells - Moritz Schütte, RWTH Aachen, Germany
12:30	Group picture of participants
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30	Study on the Anode and Electrolyte Materials for Na-Ion Batteries - Fei Xie, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
14:30 – 15:00	Progress and Prospect of Industrialization of Sodium‐Ion Batteries - Ulderico Ulissi, Breakthrough Energy, Oxford, UK
15:00 – 15:30	From Mossy to Crystalline Sodium Metal Growth: Electrochemical Strategies to Control Na-metal Nucleation and Growth - David Maibach, Polestar, Uppsala, Sweden
15:30 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:45	Sodium Layered Oxide Cathodes: From Synthesis to Full Cell - Peter Axmann, Zentrum für Solar- und Wasserstofforschung, Germany
16:45 – 17:15	Biomass-Derived Hard Carbon from Stipa tenacissima as a High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries - Mouad Dhabi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
17:15 – 17:45	Why does the economy believe in Na-ion? - John Toft, PHENOGY Europe GmbH

Wednesday, 16th of September

08:30 – 09:00	Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:30	Advanced X-ray Characterisation Techniques for Battery Materials and Devices - Paul Shearing, University of Oxford, UK
09:30 – 10:00	Safety characterization of Sodium-Ion technologies: initial insight - Sylvie Herreyre, Saft, France
10:00 – 10:30	Poster Session
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Sodium Solid State Batteries – What´s Different compared with Lithium? - Jürgen Janek, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany
11:30 – 12:00	Sodium Ion Electrolytes for Solid State Metal Batteries - Venkataraman Thangadurai, University of St Andrews, UK
12:00 – 12:30	Chemo-mechanics in sodium solid-state batteries - Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University, US
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30	Recent advances in the understanding of sodium metal chloride batteries - Corsin Battaglia, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (Empa), Switzerland
14:30– 15:00	A Multifunctional Self-Healing and Fire-Retardant Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Sodium-Ion Batteries - Zari Tehrani, Swansea University, UK
15:00 – 15:30	Commercializing Na-NiCl₂ batteries – An experience at the intersection of re-search and production readiness - Matthias Schulz, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
15:30 – 15:45	Poster Award and Concluding Remarks